SAR Handbook
The SAR Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation is the culmination of a two-year collaboration between NASA SERVIR and SilvaCarbon.
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The SAR Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation is the culmination of a two-year collaboration between NASA SERVIR and SilvaCarbon.
The Land Use Land Cover and Change Mapping Service was designed to provide governments with data, tools, and skills to better understand relevant intervention actions related to land conservation and management, ensuring that land resources can be efficiently monitored and regulated.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, over 2 billion people rely on forests for shelter, livelihoods, water, food, and fuel security. Forests even help renew our air supply, as they take in large amounts of carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
Representatives from the SERVIR Science Coordination Office (SCO), international hubs, and Applied Sciences Team (AST) traveled to San Francisco for the Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 12-16 December 2016.
SERVIR-Eastern & Southern Africa, based at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), held a week-long work plan development workshop on July 17- 21, 2017 at Maanzoni Lodge, Kenya.
Business Daily Africa recently featured an article about the land use and crop cover maps developed by RCMRD/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa and available on their open data web portal.
USAID and NASA are supporting women scientists around the world to use science and technology to improve resilience and raise the visibility of women in science.
The extensive arid and semi-arid lands of northern Kenya are home to a variety of communities. Livelihoods are predominantly livestock based, with limited small-scale crop production. The productivity of the rangelands has been in decline, mainly due to poor management practices.
RCMRD’s Lilian Wangui, Food Security and Agriculture Lead, and Rose Waswa, Remote Sensing Technician, were interviewed on a Kenyan national TV channel on August 15.
SERVIR's service planning approach brings partners, stakeholders, and end users into the design process from the very beginning, even before solutions are discussed.